On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 17:39 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 5/29/05, Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 29 May 2005 14:02:03 -0700 > > Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > Does udev somehow not support mounting by label????? > > > > > > > It's needs the device - /dev/hdxx defined somewhere. Normally this is > > defined > > in /etc/fstab. I'd guess that somewhere along the way, the labels were > > defined > > in a devfs conf file on the system, thus it appeared devfs was > > auto-magically working > > with labels. You could probably define labels for udev if you really > > wanted to. > > > > Partition labels are placed on partitions when you make the file system: > > mke2fs -j -L TVstorage /dev/sdb2 > > (Assumes a file system that supports labels.) > > Then you can read the label using > > e2label /dev/sdb2 > > When booting if the fstab file has > > LABEL=TVstorage /TVdata > > then it mounts the first partition it finds with the lable TVstorage > at the mount point /TVdata > > > > > Just add the partitions to /etc/fstab - > > > > /dev/sda3 / (and the rest of the line) > > /dev/sda8 /home/herb (and the rest of the line) > > /dev/sda6 /usr/portage (and the rest of the line) > > /dev/sdb2 /TVstorage (and the rest of the line) > > > > Bob > > This is, unfortunately, a very bad idea for removable media. What was > sdb2 today will become sdc2 tomorrow and the suggestion you make will > not work.
Actually, isn't it a simple thing such that one can write udev rules such that that disk will always be referred as TVstorage no matter if it's sda/sdb/sdc/etc?? It can use for example, the DISK's or partitions ID/Number etc. Also, if you're on Gnome and you not heard of Project Utopia/Gentopia, perhaps it's time for you to visit it and read about it. Ps : Is /dev/sdb2 a removable disk? if so, perhaps gnome-volume-manager can help (along with gamin/inotify/hal/dbus) > > I'm having a fun time with this machine since I switched to udev. > Twice today the partitions did not mount using the LABEL method but 3 > times they did. I guess it works, but not always... > > Thanks for writing back. > > Cheers, > Mark > -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:23:48 up 2 days, 9:08, 8 users, load average: 0.66, 0.60, 0.90 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
